Woman ‘felt like piece of meat as one-night stand in Cambridge became rape when he refused to wear condom’, court is told

A woman said she felt like a “piece of meat” during a one-night stand that became rape when the man refused to wear a condom, a court heard.

Imomotimi Wilson, who is standing trial for rape, met the 40-year-old woman on the dancefloor of The Regal pub in Cambridge before they went back to his shared house in Gwydir Street, off Mill Road.

Caroline Allison, prosecuting at Cambridge Crown Court, said the woman told him in the St Andrew’s Street pub that “any sex would be on the condition that he used a condom”.

She said they had consensual sex twice with protection in the early hours of Sunday, June 9 last year, before they ran out of condoms.

Wilson, 30, is then accused of holding her hands over her head telling her “if you love me you’ll do it” before raping her for 15-20 seconds.

In a police interview shown to the court the woman said: “I said repeatedly ‘no stop no no’ but he just would not listen.”

She said she was uncomfortable with some of the behaviour before the alleged rape. She said: “He was quite aggressive with me, not in hitting me or anything like that but quite aggressive, not what I was comfortable with.

“He was just quite forceful, not in any way gentle or affectionate. It’s hard to describe, but the way he treated me was as if you were a piece of meat kind of scenario.

“He was not interested in how I was responding in any way, shape or form. He was just interested in himself. He was very rough.”

In the taxi on the way to his house, she said he invited her to stay for five days, which she thought was “bizarre”, and later said he wanted to watch her sleep, which she said she thought was the “oddest phrase ever” from a stranger.

Miss Allison added: “The prosecution say that she had made it perfectly clear in plain straight-forward language that the situation was no condom, no sex and that nothing had happened in the intervening period that would invite a reasonable belief that she was indeed consenting to unprotected sex.”

Wilson denies rape and told police he stopped on the third occasion when she said no.